Which of the following is a nonlinear function? a. desmond owns a gaming store where the average number of daily customers increases by 100 each month. b. jeremy has 10 comic books and he buys 2 comic books every month. c. the annual revenue of an it firm has been decreasing by 2% per year. d. molly has $200 in savings. she decided to save $45 each month going forward.

Ineed . (1) chimpanzees, skillful tool-users, use several objects found in their environment as tools. (2) first of all, they use sticks. (3) they have been seen inserting carefully trimmed sticks into termite mounds and then withdrawing the sticks and eating the termites that cling to them; they also are known to use sticks to steal honey from beehives. (4) in addition, chimps use leaves in a variety of ingenious ways. (5) for example, they have been seen rolling leaves into cones to use as drinking cups, dampening them and using them to clean their bodies, and chewing them until they can serve as sponges. (6) finally, chimpanzees have been observed using stones to crack open nuts. 1. in general, the major details of this paragraph are a. ways chimpanzees learn to use objects as tools. b. reasons chimpanzees use objects as tools. c. examples of objects that chimpanzees use as tools. d. ingenious ways that chimpanzees use leaves.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the crowd begins to disperse just before the first martian exits the cylinder.when i returned to the common the sun was setting. scattered groups were hurrying from the direction of woking, and one or two persons were returning. the crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky—a couple of hundred people, perhaps. there were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. strange imaginings passed through my mind. as i drew nearer i heard stent's voice: "keep back! keep back! "a boy came running towards me."it's a-movin'," he said to me as he passed; 'a-screwin' and a-screwin' out. i don't like it. i'm a-goin' 'ome, i am."what options accurately depict the impact of the boy's words on pacing within the excerpt? (select all that apply.)the war of the worldsthe setting is in england, so the boy's words provide the reader with the dialect of the area. even though that slows down the plot, the boy's words contain important information.the plot's forward movement is slow at the beginning of the excerpt because there is little action. the boy's words increase the tension and counteract that lag.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.the narrator is not close enough to see clearly into the pit, so the boy's words provide the narrator with the information he needs, which moves the plot forward.wrong? the boy's words serve to speed up the pacing of the plot because, as he is talking to the narrator, he is running past him to get away.

Identify the appositive phrase in the excerpt from "the story of an hour" by kate chopin.